Alcohol Bans Force South African Wineries to Rethink Trade Plans
- Liquor industry struggles with prohibition to contain Covid-19
- Harvest timing causes headache after recent five-week stoppage
Photographer: Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images
This article is for subscribers only.
Before the arrival of Covid-19 in South Africa, Berene Sauls had dreams of growing grapes near her home village and expanding her fledgling wine business.
The 37-year-old makes about 8,000 bottles a year of Tesselaarsdal Wines, and is one of hundreds of wine makers dotted across the hills and valleys near Cape Town that make up the country’s main producing region. She buys grapes from nearby Babylon Vineyards, but has bought a property as a place to eventually harvest her own.